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pendulous, many-flowered, minutely bracteolate. Fldwers distant, 1*5 

 to 2 in. in diam., on thin pedicels '2 to '3 in. long, buds globose. 

 Calyx turbinate, obconic, 2- or 3-partite, permanent. Petals 4, oblong. 

 Stamens very numerous, much longer than the calyx but shorter than 

 the style. Fruit as large as a hen's egg and of much the same 

 shape, but somewhat 4-sided, nearly smooth, the pericarp leathery ; 

 seed solitary ovate-oblong. DO. Prodr. Ill, 288; Wall. Cat. 3634; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 333 ; Wight Ic. t. 152, including fruit ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 3831 ;Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 94; Gaud. Yoy. Freyc. t. 107; Vidal, 

 P. Fl. Fil., t. 50a ; Kurz For. Fl. I, 496 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 507 ; Triraen Flora Ceyl. II, 189. B. speciosa, Wall. Cat. 3632 B. 

 B. alha, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 487. Eugenia racemosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 673. Stravidium album, DC. Prodr. Ill, 289. Butonica racemosa and 

 alba, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II, Bot. I, 65, 66, t. 13, figs. 1-17. 

 B. rubra and inclyta, Miers I.e. 70, 71, t. 14, figs. 1-3, 19.— Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. IV, t. 6. 



In all the provinces; on the sea shores. Distrib. — Brit. India, 

 Malayan Archipelago, Polynesia. 



4. BARRfNGTONiA PAUCiPLORA, King n. sp. A tree, 30 or 40 feet 

 high ; young branches slender, glabrous, pale-brown when dry. Leaves 

 thickly membranous, broadly oblanceolate narrowed into the petiole at 

 the base ; the apex suddenly and shortly caudate-acuminate ; main- 

 nerves 8 to 10 pairs, curving upwards ; length 3 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 

 1*25 to 2 in. ; petiole '4 to '8 in., slender. Raceme solitary, terminal, 

 erect, 1*5 to 2 in. long, bearing only 2 or 3 flowers or sometimes only a 

 single one. Floiuers about 1*75 in. long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 

 boldly 4-angled, sparsely rufous-furfuraceous, '4 in. long; the lobes 4, 

 ovate-rotund, blunt, shorter than the tube. Petals 4, obovate-oblong, 

 glabrous, 1 in. long. Stamens longer than the petals. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 939 ; King's Collector 6355. 



5. Barringtonia macrostachya, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng, 

 XLVI, Pt. 2, 71; For. Flora Burma II, 498. A glabrous shrub or 

 small tree; young branches pale-brown, striate. Leaves oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate or oblong-elliptic, naiTowed to the long slender petiole, the apex 

 abruptly acuminate, the edges entire or with broad shallow crenations ; 

 main-nerves 14 to 18 pairs, curved, ascending, rather prominent beneath 

 when dry; length 5 to 12 in. ; breadth 2 to 5 in. ; petiole 1 to 4"5 in. 

 Splices lateral (often extra-axillary) or terminal, pendulous, 1 to 2 feet 

 long, glabrous or puberulous, stout, rather fleshy and much thickened in 

 the fruiting stage ; bracteoles minute, caducous. Flowers sessile, 

 crowded, nearly 2 inches long and 1 in. across when expanded. Calyx- 

 tube obconic, 4-angled, '25 in. long ; the limb with 4 broad, blunt lobes 



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